Emancipatory Practices of Self-Organized Workers in the Context of Neoliberal Policies: IMPA, the Case of a ‘Recovered Factory’ in Buenos Aires

Abstract

The chapter focuses on the experience of one of the main factories recovered from the city of Buenos Aires, Industrias Metalúrgicas y Plásticas Argentina (IMPA). Factory recovery, is a movement carried out by workers who have been displaced from their jobs in companies abandoned by their owners. In this sense, the chapter explores the way in which workers organize themselves through solidarity practices to reactivate factories and thus maintain their jobs. This process, full of tensions and conflicts, is expressed in the formation of worker´s cooperatives and emancipation spaces.